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Is Failure of the Oroville Dam Possible?

February 11th, 2017 by Roy W. Spencer, Ph. D.

“The last couple of days have not made me very confident in the predictions of engineers associated with the Oroville Dam.

While I am a climate researcher, and not hydrologist, it took me less than an hour midday yesterday (see comments here) to estimate that the emergency spillway would be breached around 9 a.m. PST this morning. I was off by an hour…it was breached at 8 a.m.

The latest releases have caused even more damage widening the hole and cutting away at the side of the hill. The lake is at about 95% so they have to keep releasing I would suspect. This is an earthen dam and if this thing goes it will be a major catastrophe. If you live in California stay alert you do not want to have all that water and earth coming at you.

here is a short video:

A video posted on YouTube shows big trouble at the dam, as the spillway has developed an almost 200 ft. hole. For the earthen filled dam this may turn out to serious, though officials are saying there is no danger at this point. .

According to Wikipedia this is the most important water source for the California Department of Water Resources’ State Water Project.

“The Oroville-Thermalito Complex is a group of reservoirs, structures, and facilities located in and around the city of Oroville in Butte County, California. The complex serves not only as a regional water conveyance and storage system, but is the headwaters for, and therefore perhaps is the most vital part of, the California Department of Water Resources’ State Water Project, the world’s largest publicly built and operated water and power development and conveyance system.”

“Operators increased their water releases at the dam on Tuesday as a significant storm rolled through Northern California. However, as peak water releases started happening around noon, people started noticing some concerning signs”

In terms of a catastrophic failure besides the residents below who could lose everything and the immediate lose of life, there also could be major impacts throughout California in terms of water and power.

Have not been able to spend too much time watching the live streams, right now it is night in Japan, but will try to get more shots today. My YouTube videos on the smoke coming from Reactor #1 have been being hit by trolls with fake accounts, saying all kinds of stuff about my videos being bogus and such. This just adds credibility ( in my opinion) to my thoughts that it is steam or smoke we saw boiling out of that building.

An article on January 27th 2017, by Callum Borchers in the Washington Post is just one more example of mainstream media running stories that they know to be slanted and deceptive, if not outright lies. I challenge anyone to carefully read this, and then still think that Steve Bannon’s article about the media is true as written. I will address his main point that,

“In reality, though, “the elite media got it dead wrong” is a vastly oversimplified synopsis of campaign coverage. To be sure, plenty of commentators said Trump was likely to lose. And they were wrong. But the reporters who covered the campaign mostly stayed away from predictions. What they did, over and over, was point out that no candidate like Trump had ever won before.”.

and you will see what I am talking about.

What he tries to do is to assert the notion that the actual campaign reporters never said that Trump “can’t’ win or “won’t” win, and say that plenty of commentators said he was “likely to lose’

Now maybe the “campaign reporters” were not the ones who made the prediction out loud but it is clear that many in the “ elite media” did. Just because it was the commentator on the news or TV program, does not mean the “media elite” did not say “Trump can’t win’. The pundits and celebrities, and politicians both Republican and Democrats, clearly said over and over that Trump can not win, that he will never be President. Whether you love or hate Trump the facts of what was said and by who are just that, facts.And to continue to lie about these facts just causes more division in this already divided country and gives the Washington Post , and it’s writers, less and less credibility. So, lets move on and stop with the fake news.